Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -24 +2 -12
Permanent jobs citing Python 186 367 318
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.73% 10.19% 10.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.05% 29.64% 24.79%
Number of salaries quoted 104 187 203
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,500 £40,631
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,313 £83,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £109,500 £89,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 599 1,238 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.24% 34.37% 40.61%
Number of salaries quoted 439 730 932
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +10.57% -5.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £79,000 £90,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -31 90 £46,000 -34.29% 61
Buckinghamshire -8 50 £60,000 +3.90% 23
Oxfordshire -9 46 £67,500 +0.53% 52
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.54%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.54%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (13.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.76%) MadCap Flare
3 3 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (36.02%) Azure
2 57 (30.65%) Power Platform
3 51 (27.42%) AWS
4 33 (17.74%) GCP
5 18 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (9.68%) Serverless
6 17 (9.14%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (9.14%) GitHub
7 15 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (8.06%) Azure AI
8 14 (7.53%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (3.76%) dbt
10 7 (3.76%) Google Analytics
10 7 (3.76%) Google Docs
11 6 (3.23%) SaaS
11 6 (3.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 6 (3.23%) Snowflake
12 5 (2.69%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (2.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.23%) DNS
1 6 (3.23%) Firewall
1 6 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.15%) Wireless
3 3 (1.61%) Internet
3 3 (1.61%) MQTT
4 2 (1.08%) 5G
5 1 (0.54%) 4G
5 1 (0.54%) Broadband
5 1 (0.54%) DHCP
5 1 (0.54%) HTTP
5 1 (0.54%) Intranet
5 1 (0.54%) MIMO
5 1 (0.54%) Modbus
5 1 (0.54%) NGN
5 1 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.54%) SpaceWire
5 1 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (25.81%) Power BI
2 27 (14.52%) Tableau
3 24 (12.90%) BigQuery
4 23 (12.37%) Relational Database
5 17 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (7.53%) RDBMS
7 13 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (5.38%) Metadata
9 6 (3.23%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.69%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.61%) Data Hub
11 3 (1.61%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.61%) Looker
11 3 (1.61%) MySQL
12 2 (1.08%) Airbyte
12 2 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (1.08%) Spark SQL
12 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (12.90%) Jenkins
2 23 (12.37%) Git
3 14 (7.53%) JMeter
3 14 (7.53%) JUnit
3 14 (7.53%) Mockito
4 7 (3.76%) GitLab
4 7 (3.76%) JIRA
4 7 (3.76%) MLflow
5 5 (2.69%) Selenium
6 4 (2.15%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.15%) Postman
6 4 (2.15%) SoapUI
6 4 (2.15%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.61%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.61%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.54%) Appium
8 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
General
1 66 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (15.59%) Law
4 25 (13.44%) Finance
5 24 (12.90%) Marketing
6 19 (10.22%) Public Sector
7 14 (7.53%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.69%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.15%) Retail
10 3 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.08%) Banking
11 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.08%) Legal
11 2 (1.08%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.54%) Automotive
12 1 (0.54%) Aviation
12 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 35 (18.82%) Analyst
2 34 (18.28%) Developer
3 28 (15.05%) Senior
4 24 (12.90%) Architect
5 21 (11.29%) Data Analyst
6 20 (10.75%) Cloud Architect
6 20 (10.75%) GCP Architect
6 20 (10.75%) Platform Architect
7 16 (8.60%) Java Developer
7 16 (8.60%) Junior
8 15 (8.06%) Junior Analyst
8 15 (8.06%) Junior Data Analyst
9 14 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (7.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 14 (7.53%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 13 (6.99%) Software Engineer
11 9 (4.84%) Lead
12 8 (4.30%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (4.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (4.30%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.05%) REST
2 16 (8.60%) HTML
2 16 (8.60%) Spring
2 16 (8.60%) Spring Boot
3 15 (8.06%) JSON
3 15 (8.06%) Web Services
3 15 (8.06%) XML
4 14 (7.53%) ActiveMQ
4 14 (7.53%) Apache Camel
4 14 (7.53%) Hibernate
4 14 (7.53%) jQuery
4 14 (7.53%) SOAP
4 14 (7.53%) WireMock
5 11 (5.91%) .NET
6 10 (5.38%) Middleware
7 6 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (3.23%) scikit-learn
7 6 (3.23%) Visualforce
8 5 (2.69%) PyTorch
9 4 (2.15%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.44%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.91%) Life Science
4 8 (4.30%) Low-Code
5 6 (3.23%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.15%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (2.15%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 4 (2.15%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.15%) SCADA
8 3 (1.61%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.61%) Animation
8 3 (1.61%) LIMS
9 2 (1.08%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.54%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.54%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.54%) PCIe
10 1 (0.54%) Replication
10 1 (0.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.52%) Linux
2 10 (5.38%) Unix
3 9 (4.84%) Windows
4 3 (1.61%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.54%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.54%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (31.18%) CI/CD
2 57 (30.65%) Analytics
3 56 (30.11%) Agile
4 49 (26.34%) Business Intelligence
5 39 (20.97%) AI
6 36 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (18.28%) Mentoring
8 33 (17.74%) Data Science
8 33 (17.74%) Roadmaps
9 31 (16.67%) DevOps
10 29 (15.59%) ETL
11 28 (15.05%) Strategic Roadmap
12 26 (13.98%) Computer Science
13 25 (13.44%) Cloud Security
13 25 (13.44%) Decision-Making
13 25 (13.44%) Machine Learning
13 25 (13.44%) Software Engineering
14 24 (12.90%) Cost Optimisation
14 24 (12.90%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 72 (38.71%) SQL
2 51 (27.42%) Java
3 40 (21.51%) JavaScript
4 26 (13.98%) Go
5 17 (9.14%) Shell Script
6 16 (8.60%) C++
7 15 (8.06%) C#
8 14 (7.53%) Bash
9 10 (5.38%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (3.23%) Apex Code
12 5 (2.69%) C
12 5 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (2.69%) TypeScript
13 4 (2.15%) Fortran
13 4 (2.15%) PHP
13 4 (2.15%) R
14 3 (1.61%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.61%) VBA
15 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (20.43%) Degree
2 27 (14.52%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.22%) Azure Certification
4 17 (9.14%) Master's Degree
5 10 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.84%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.69%) PhD
8 3 (1.61%) ACCA
8 3 (1.61%) CIMA
8 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.61%) OSCP
9 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.54%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.54%) GPEN
10 1 (0.54%) MCSE
10 1 (0.54%) RHCE
10 1 (0.54%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.14%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.91%) QA
3 4 (2.15%) GDPR
4 3 (1.61%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 3 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.61%) ECSS
4 3 (1.61%) GxP
4 3 (1.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 31 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (2.15%) vCloud
3 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (27.96%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.06%) Kibana
3 12 (6.45%) Terraform
4 11 (5.91%) Ansible
5 4 (2.15%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (2.15%) Kubeflow
5 4 (2.15%) Rundeck
6 3 (1.61%) Argo
6 3 (1.61%) Nmap
7 1 (0.54%) Control-M
7 1 (0.54%) Grafana
7 1 (0.54%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.54%) SCCM
7 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (16.67%) Google
2 24 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.06%) Dynatrace
4 14 (7.53%) Splunk
5 10 (5.38%) Databricks
6 8 (4.30%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.23%) MuleSoft
7 6 (3.23%) VMware
8 4 (2.15%) Allen-Bradley
8 4 (2.15%) SAP
8 4 (2.15%) Siemens
9 3 (1.61%) Agilent
9 3 (1.61%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.61%) Talend
10 2 (1.08%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.08%) Cognos
10 2 (1.08%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.08%) IBM
10 2 (1.08%) Informatica
10 2 (1.08%) Zoho